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Days after a review of Australia's national curriculum recommended against teaching digital technologies – including computational thinking – as a discrete subject in the nation's schools, a new “Industry Innovation and Competitiveness Agenda” has proposed new funding to teach programming. The new Agenda [PDF] proposes to …

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  1. Paul J Turner

    Interesting wording

    '...the enhancement of an education facility in Australia...' not the creation. My bet would be IBM's initial foray into Australian education - Cherrybrook Technology High School

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  2. Diogenes

    Left hand meet right hand

    I suggest that this was set in train assuming the National Curriculum for DT would go through relatively unscathed.

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